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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:53 pm 
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Hey people. I have just found at the bullimore wreckers in townsville an EL XR8 smash, the wreckers wont seperate the trip computer from the rest of the dash, he wants $400. bucks for the lot

black leather steering wheel (good grey airbag)
Trip computer (i wana this :) )
whole xr8 dash
also instrument cluster with oil pressure and ammeter gauges
what yas think? anyone want some bits because i would like to fit some of the stuff into my ef 6.

cheers, sam.
PS I live in Brisbane so i would most likely get the stuff and bring it back down there.

 

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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 1:29 am 
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Buy it for $400 and sell it off. Might make money on it all. Some good s**t in that lot there.
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:06 am 
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biotchen. well the big pain is getting it back to brisbane this week. i flew to townsville. if he still has it in a couple of weeks ill buy it and get the old man to go out and get the fricken thing. cheers twirqurky.

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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:22 pm 
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does anyone know if the EL xr8 dash would be compatible with my EF GLI wiring harness? just want it for the oil and amp gauges and the steering wheel.

 

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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:36 pm 
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You need to add an oil pressure switch for the sports dash. The tachometer would need adjusting if you own a six cylinder (as the dash is from an XR8). The steering wheel would change over without any trouble, and the trip computer would require extra wires to run it properly.

 

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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:09 pm 
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thanks for that, i was thinking there would be some fiddling with the dash as per the fairlane dash mod. but i was thinking of either trying to use the original cluster and adding the gauges etc. ill see if i can buy the pressure switch as i doubt that it would cost a hell of a lot. cheers for that.

 

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The sports/mid cluster will plug right in, just need to swap your oil switch for an oil sender (<$50 from Ford spares) and it'll work.

Don't know if the tacho will be wrong between an 8 and a 6. As the single is from the ECU is just a pulse per revolution, shouldn't matter if there was 8 or 6 cylinders in it.

 

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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:38 pm 
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well i get a trip comp steering wheel and dash board etc for 400 bucks reckon its worth the dollars?

 

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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:30 am 
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tacho will be fine no matter if its from a 6 or 8

 

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uglybob wrote:
tacho will be fine no matter if its from a 6 or 8
Thats what I thought.

Buy it and sell it off on Ebay.
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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:32 am 
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camh1980 wrote:
You need to add an oil pressure switch for the sports dash. The tachometer would need adjusting if you own a six cylinder (as the dash is from an XR8). The steering wheel would change over without any trouble, and the trip computer would require extra wires to run it properly.


there is no difference between the i6 and v8 tachos

 

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sell the other junk on ebay. may pay for the trip you want

 

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